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Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter; Seth P. Kestner, Assistant Attorney General;
William L. Gibbons, District Attorney General; and Michelle Kimbrill-Parks, Assistant District
Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge: WOODALL

Defendant, Michael Ashley, was indicted on one count of criminally negligent homicide, a Class E
felony, arising out of the death of the victim, James Graham. The trial court instructed the jury on
the offenses of reckless endangerment accomplished with a deadly weapon, a Class E felony, and
reckless endangerment without a deadly weapon, a Class A misdemeanor, as lesser included offenses
of criminally negligent homicide. Following a jury trial, Defendant was found not guilty of
criminally negligent homicide and guilty of felony reckless endangerment. The trial court denied
probation and sentenced Defendant to two years confinement. In his appeal, Defendant argues that
the trial court erred in charging the jury on the offense of felony reckless endangerment as a lesser
included offense of criminally negligent homicide, and that the trial court erred in sentencing him
to a sentence of confinement rather than some form of alternative sentencing. After a thorough
review, we conclude that the conviction offense of felony reckless endangerment is not a lesser
included offense of criminally negligent homicide. Because the jury rejected the charged offense of
criminally negligent homicide, and because there are no lesser included offenses of criminally
negligent homicide, we reverse and dismiss Defendant's conviction.

Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter; Elizabeth Bingham Marney, Assistant Attorney
General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge: WELLES

The Petitioner, Kendall G. Campbell, appeals from the order of the trial court dismissing his petition
for habeas corpus relief. The State has filed a motion requesting that this Court affirm the trial
court's denial of relief pursuant to Rule 20, Rules of the Court of Criminal Appeals. The petition
fails to establish a cognizable claim for habeas corpus relief. Accordingly, the State's motion is
granted and the judgment of the trial court is affirmed.

Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter; C. Daniel Lins, Assistant Attorney General;
William Michael McCown, District Attorney General; and Weakley E. Barnard, Assistant District
Attorney General, for the appellee, the State of Tennessee.

Judge: WOODALL

Defendant, Servando Delasancha Castrejon, entered a plea of guilty to two counts of sexual battery
by an authority figure, a Class C felony, and two counts of unlawful photographing in violation of
privacy, a Class A misdemeanor, without a recommendation from the State as to sentencing.
Following a sentencing hearing, the trial court sentenced Defendant as a Range I, standard offender,
to four years, six months for each felony conviction, and eleven months, twenty-nine days for each
misdemeanor conviction. The felony sentences are to be served consecutively to each other, with
the misdemeanor sentences concurrently with each other and with one of the felony sentences, for
an effective sentence of nine years. Defendant does not challenge the trial courtís denial of
alternative sentencing or the length of his sentences. In his appeal, Defendant argues that the trial
court erred in imposing consecutive sentencing. After a careful review of the record, we affirm the
judgments of the trial court.

This is an appeal from the denial of post-conviction relief. The Petitioner, James Charles Cavaye,
was convicted upon a jury verdict of first degree murder and especially aggravated robbery. He
received sentences of life imprisonment and twenty-four years to be served consecutively. This
Court upheld his convictions and sentences on direct appeal. See State v. James Charles Cavaye,
No. M2001-02154-CCA-R3-CD, 2002 WL 31769092 (Tenn. Crim. App., Nashville, Dec. 11, 2002).
The Petitioner filed for and was denied post-conviction relief. The Petitioner now appeals the trial
courtís denial of post-conviction relief, claiming his counsel provided ineffective assistance of
counsel. We affirm the judgment of the trial court.

Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter, Jennifer L. Bledsoe, Assistant Attorney
General; William L. Gibbons, District Attorney General; and Lee Coffey, Assistant District
Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge: OGLE

The petitioner, Edward Coleman, was convicted of first degree premeditated murder, and he
received a sentence of life imprisonment. Thereafter, he filed a petition for post-conviction
relief, alleging that his trial counsel was ineffective. The post-conviction court denied the
petition, and the petitioner appeals. Upon our review of the record and the parties' briefs, we
affirm the judgment of the post-conviction court.

Philip A. Condra, District Public Defender, and Charles D. Curtis, II, Assistant Public Defender, for
the appellant, Chris Allen Dodson.

Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter; Renee W. Turner, Assistant Attorney General;
James Michael Taylor, District Attorney General; and Sherry D. Gouger, Assistant District Attorney
General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge: WILLIAMS

The probation of the defendant, Chris Allen Dodson, was revoked based upon: 1) New law violations
consisting of possession of drug paraphernalia, criminal attempt to manufacture methamphetamine,
possession of Schedule II drugs, and possession of Schedule IV drugs; and 2) Failure to notify his
probation officer of the new law violations. On appeal, the defendant contends that the trial court
erred in considering evidence obtained as a result of an illegal search. Upon review, we conclude
that the proof presented was the product of a valid consensual search and that the trial court did not
abuse its discretion in revoking the defendant's probation.

Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter; Elizabeth B. Marney, Assistant Attorney General;
and James Goodwin, Assistant District Attorney General, for the Appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge: HAYES

The Appellant, Donnie W. Foulks, appeals the judgment of the Greene County Criminal Court
denying post-conviction relief. On appeal, Foulks argues that he was denied his Sixth Amendment
right to the effective assistance of counsel and that his sentencing violated the constitutional mandate
of Blakely v. Washington. After review of the record, we affirm the denial of post-conviction relief.

Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter; Brian Clay Johnson, Assistant Attorney General;
William L. Gibbons, District Attorney General; and Michelle Parks and Bobby Carter, Assistant
District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge: OGLE

A Shelby County Criminal Court jury convicted the appellant, Solomon Galloway, of two counts of
aggravated robbery. The trial court merged the convictions and sentenced the appellant as a Range
I, standard offender to eight years in the Department of Correction. In this appeal, the appellant
claims that the trial court improperly enhanced his sentence in light of Blakely v. Washington, 542
U.S. 296, 124 S. Ct. 2531 (2004), which resulted in his being improperly classified as a standard
offender instead of an especially mitigated offender. Upon review of the record and the parties'
briefs, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.

Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter; John H. Bledsoe, Assistant Attorney General; J.
Scott McCluen, District Attorney General; and Frank A. Harvey, Assistant District Attorney General,
for the appellant, State of Tennessee.

Joe H. Walker, District Public Defender, and Walter B. Johnson, II, Assistant Public Defender, for
the appellee, Ronnie Dale Gentry.

Judge: TIPTON

The state appeals from the Loudon County Criminal Court's dismissal of the indictments against the
defendant, Ronnie Dale Gentry, for driving under the influence (DUI), violation of the implied
consent law, driving on a revoked license, and speeding pursuant to Rule 8(a) of the Tennessee Rules
of Criminal Procedure requiring mandatory joinder. We reverse the judgments of the trial court.

Petitioner, Hilton G. Jeffries, filed a pro se pleading captioned as a "Motion to Amend or Correct
Judgment" in Case No. 23873 in the Circuit Court of Montgomery County. The pleading was in
reference to his conviction in 1987 of aggravated rape of a child less than thirteen years of age. He
was sentenced to serve forty years. In his pleading, Petitioner alleges that his constitutional rights
were violated when the trial court enhanced his sentence from the minimum sentence of twenty years
to forty years. The trial court treated the pleading as a petition for post-conviction relief and
summarily dismissed it. Petitioner has filed a timely appeal, and counsel was appointed by the trial
court to represent Petitioner on appeal. The State has filed a motion for affirmance pursuant to Rule
20 of the Rules of the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals. Having thoroughly reviewed the
record, we grant the State's motion and affirm the judgment of the trial court.

Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter; Leslie Price, Assistant Attorney General; H.
Greeley Wells, Jr., District Attorney General; and Teresa Murray Smith and William Harper,
Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge: MCLIN

The defendant, Jessica Hope Lane, pled guilty to possession of cocaine with intent to sell, theft of
property valued under $500.00, possession of drug paraphernalia, obtaining a controlled substance
by fraud, and two counts of failure to appear. In return, the defendant received a five-year sentence
to be served in a manner determined by the trial court plus two years on probation resulting in an
effective seven-year sentence. The trial court ordered the defendant to serve her five-year sentence
in confinement, and the defendant appealed. Following our review of the record and the parties'
briefs, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.

The defendant, James W. Mintlow, appeals from his conviction for sale of less than one-half gram
of cocaine, a Class C felony. The trial court sentenced him to a ten-year sentence to be served as a
Range III, persistent offender in the Department of Correction. The defendant asserts that the
evidence was insufficient to support his conviction and that the trial court erred in denying his
motion for a mistrial after a witness testified that he had previously testified at the defendant's
probation hearing. We affirm the judgment of the trial court.

Following a jury trial, Defendant, Abbigail Morton, was convicted of one count of attempted
premeditated first degree murder and one count of conspiracy to commit premeditated first degree
murder. The trial court sentenced Defendant as a Range I, standard offender, to concurrent sentences
of twenty years for each conviction. In her appeal, Defendant argues that (1) the testimony of the
co-defendant, Robert Hunter, was insufficiently corroborated to support Defendantís convictions;
(2) the evidence was insufficient to support her convictions; (3) the trial court erred in not instructing
the jury on the lesser included offense of solicitation of first degree murder; and (4) the trial court
erred in not sentencing Defendant as an especially mitigated offender. After a thorough review of
the record, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.

The petitioner, Sylvester Lee Mosley, appeals the Davidson County Criminal Court's summary
dismissal of his petition for post-conviction relief from his guilty pleas to facilitation of first degree
murder, a Class B felony, and possession with intent to sell or deliver a Schedule II controlled
substance and resulting effective sentence of eighteen years in the Department of Correction. He
contends his petition stated a cognizable claim for relief under the Post-Conviction Procedure Act,
thereby entitling him to counsel and an evidentiary hearing. We conclude that the petition states a
cognizable claim for relief and that the trial court erred in summarily dismissing the petition. We
reverse the trial court's order dismissing the petition and remand this case to the trial court for the
appointment of counsel and an evidentiary hearing.

On May 31, 2002, following a jury trial, Defendant, Tony Allan Phipps, was convicted of voluntary
manslaughter. Defendant was sentenced to serve eleven (11) years in the Department of Correction
and ordered to pay a fine in the amount of five thousand ($5000.00) dollars. Defendant filed a
motion for new trial which the trial court granted on October 14, 2002. On August 11, 2004,
following another jury trial, Defendant was convicted of reckless homicide, ordered to pay a five
thousand ($5000.00) dollar fine and sentenced to ten (10) years in the Department of Correction.
Defendant appeals his conviction for reckless homicide. In his appeal, Defendant argues (1) the
evidence in the record is insufficient to sustain a conviction for reckless homicide; (2) the evidence
in the record does not support the jury verdict; (3) the jury verdict is contrary to law and evidence;
and (4) the State did not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Defendant did not act in self-defense
as required by Tennessee Code Annotated section 39-11-611(b) (2003). The judgment of the trial
court is affirmed.

The Petitioner, Prokeryon Primm, appeals from the order of the trial court dismissing his petition
for habeas corpus relief. The State has filed a motion requesting that this Court affirm the trial
court's denial of relief pursuant to Rule 20, Rules of the Court of Criminal Appeals. The petition
fails to establish a cognizable claim for habeas corpus relief. Accordingly, the State's motion is
granted, and the judgment of the trial court is affirmed.

Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter; Sophia S. Lee, Assistant Attorney General; John
Carney, District Attorney General; and Helen Young, Assistant District Attorney General, for the
appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge: WELLES

The Defendant, Marcus Robinson, pled guilty to two counts of especially aggravated robbery but
subsequently filed a motion to withdraw his pleas, which was denied by the trial court. At a separate
plea hearing, the Defendant pled guilty to two counts of attempted first degree murder. Following
a sentencing hearing, the Defendant's two especially aggravated robbery convictions were merged,
and he was sentenced to twenty-four years and six months for the especially aggravated robbery
conviction. He received a fifteen-year sentence for each attempted murder conviction. In addition,
the Defendant was found to have violated the terms of a nine-year community corrections sentence
and that sentence was ordered to be served in confinement. The two fifteen-year sentences were
ordered to be served concurrently with each other, but consecutively to the twenty-four years and six-
month sentence. These sentences were also ordered to be served consecutively to the nine-year
sentence, for an effective sentence of forty-eight and one-half years in the Department of Correction.
On appeal, the Defendant raises three issues; that the trial court erred in: (1) denying his motion to
withdraw his guilty pleas for especially aggravated robbery, (2) imposing consecutive sentences, and
(3) imposing an excessive sentence for his especially aggravated robbery conviction. We affirm the
judgments of the trial court.

The Defendant, Tony Samuel, was convicted by a Lauderdale County jury of burglary and Class E felony theft. He received an effective seven-year sentence for these convictions. In this appeal as of right, the Defendant argues that: (1) the evidence is insufficient to support his convictions and (2) his sentences are excessive. After a review of the record, the judgments of conviction and resulting sentences are affirmed.

A Hamilton County Criminal Court jury convicted the defendant, Clarence David Schreane, of first
degree felony murder and especially aggravated robbery, a Class A felony, and the trial court
sentenced him to life imprisonment for the murder and sixty years for the robbery, ordering the
defendant to serve his sixty-year sentence as a career offender consecutively for an effective sentence
of life plus sixty years. The defendant appeals, claiming the trial court erred in failing to suppress
his confession. We affirm the judgments of the trial court.

A Warren County Circuit Court jury convicted the defendant, Michael Kenneth Sisco, of driving under the influence (DUI), second offense, a Class A misdemeanor, and the trial court sentenced him to eleven months and twenty-nine days with sixty days to serve in confinement and the balance on probation. On appeal, the defendant contends that the evidence is insufficient, that the trial court erred in allowing the testimony of a rebuttal witness, and that the trial court erred in sentencing. We affirm the judgment of the trial court.

The petitioner, Arthur W. Stamey, III appeals the post-conviction courtís denial of post-conviction relief. On appeal, he alleges that he entered an unknowing and involuntary guilty plea, received the ineffective assistance of counsel, and received an illegal sentence. Following our review of the record and the partiesí briefs, we affirm the judgment of the post-conviction court denying post-conviction relief.

The defendant, Curtis Lee Thames, pled guilty to aggravated robbery, a Class B felony, in return for an eight-year sentence served in a manner to be determined by the trial court. The trial court ordered the defendant to serve his sentence in confinement, and the defendant appealed. Following our review of the record and the partiesí briefs, we affirm the trial court.

The petitioner, Patrick Thurmond, appeals pro se from the Johnson County Criminal Courtís dismissal of his petition for habeas corpus relief from his convictions for one count of aggravated burglary, two counts of aggravated rape, one count of attempted aggravated rape, and one count of aggravated sexual battery and effective sentence of fifty years. The petitioner claims (1) that his sentences for attempted aggravated rape and aggravated sexual battery are illegal because the offenses are not subject to the multiple rapist classification under Tennessee Code Annotated section 39-13-523, (2) that his judgments of conviction are void on the two counts of aggravated rape and attempted aggravated rape because his classification as a multiple rapist is an enhanced punishment that was not charged in the indictment as required by Tennessee Code Annotated section 40-35203(e), and (3) that the trial court violated Tennessee Code Annotated section 29-21-108(b) in failing to grant a writ. We conclude that the sentences for attempted aggravated rape and aggravated sexual battery are illegal. We affirm the trial courtís judgment in part, reverse the judgment in part, and remand the case.

Judge Lee E. Haworth announced that he will seek re-election to the 12th Judicial Circuit Court. The circuit includes Sarasota, Manatee and DeSoto counties, the Sun Herald reports.

3rd Judicial District Circuit Court Judge John K. Wilson of Tusculum says he will not seek the Republican nomination for the 1st Congressional District seat, but will instead continue his unopposed race for re-election to a fifth term.

Jay Grinney, president and CEO of HealthSouth, will speak at Vanderbilt Law School on April 14 about the progress the Birmingham-based health care company has made in restoring its credibility and profitability in the wake of the massive financial scandal uncovered there three years ago. The event is open to the public.

Knoxville lawyer M. Josiah Hoover was publicly censured by the Board of Professional Responsibility for violating RPC 8.4(d) of the attorneys rules of professional conduct as codified in Rule 8, Rules of the Supreme Court of Tennessee.

Former Shelby County assistant district attorney Sid Bruce was one of the victims of the tornados that tore through West Tennessee last week. Bruce, 69, was a prosecutor from 1982 to 1999, before retiring to Dyer County, the Commercial Appeal reports.